Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
"Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.
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"Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.School Library JournalManga has become a phenomenon, available in schools, public libraries, and bookstores. One of the genres that is becoming more popular is "boys' love" manga, also known as yaoi or shonen-ai. This collection of essays covers various aspects of these books. The quality of the selections varies; some are clear and lively; others are bogged down by the authors' apparent wish to appear erudite. Interestingly, the most accessible articles are those written by women. Boys' Love Manga is not a readers' advisory or a primer on the best examples of the genre. Its function is as a discussion of various aspects of it and would fit in public libraries with avid readers of BL, librarians with an interest in the subject, or as a resource for university-level course work. Unless a high school is very progressive and has a course in the sociological aspects of all forms of manga, its usefulness in a school library is limited.—Suanne Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
Introduction Antonia Levi Levi, Antonia 1Part One Boys' Love and Global Publishing1 Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S. Hope Donovan Donovan, Hope 112 From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys' Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically Paul M. Malone Malone, Paul M. 233 Boys' Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia Yamila Abraham Abraham, Yamila 44Part Two Genre and Readership4 Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction Dru Pagliassotti Pagliassotti, Dru 595 Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off? Mark John Isola Isola, Mark John 846 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash Marni Stanley Stanley, Marni 997 "She Should Just Die in a Ditch": Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys' Love Manga M. M. Blair Blair, M. M. 1108 Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction Tan Bee Kee Tan, Bee Kee 126Part Three Boys' Love and Perceptions of the Queer9 Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys' Love Manga Neal K. Akatsuka Akatsuka, Neal K. 15910 Boys in Love in Boys' Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation Mark McHarry McHarry, Mark 17711 Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response Kim Senior Senior, Kim 19012 Gay or Gei? Reading "Realness" in Japanese Yaoi Manga Alexis Hall Hall, Alexis 21113 Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon Alan Williams Williams, Alan 22114 Hidden in Straight Sight: Transgressing Gender and Sexuality via BL Uli Meyer Meyer, Uli 232Glossary 257About the Contributors 265Index 267
\ School Library JournalManga has become a phenomenon, available in schools, public libraries, and bookstores. One of the genres that is becoming more popular is "boys' love" manga, also known as yaoi or shonen-ai. This collection of essays covers various aspects of these books. The quality of the selections varies; some are clear and lively; others are bogged down by the authors' apparent wish to appear erudite. Interestingly, the most accessible articles are those written by women. Boys' Love Manga is not a readers' advisory or a primer on the best examples of the genre. Its function is as a discussion of various aspects of it and would fit in public libraries with avid readers of BL, librarians with an interest in the subject, or as a resource for university-level course work. Unless a high school is very progressive and has a course in the sociological aspects of all forms of manga, its usefulness in a school library is limited.—Suanne Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL\ \
